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Information, the current stage of the mississippi is 42.26. so we re literally less than 3 inches from the crest. and as expected, around 6:00 tonight. but it s just a few more inches. we re looking at forecast crest for illinois, in chester, illinois, that would be for tomorrow and also as we go southward towards cape g girardeau, going forward into the first week of squan, it will eventually take a while for all of that water to flow into the gulf of mexico. another immediate threat is the southeast. i mentioned we still have rain. luckily it stopped in the st. louis area but still coming down into florida, alabama, georgia, so hard hit in the atlanta area. so there s more in the forecast for today. we could see another one to two inches of rain. locally three to five inches possible. and this is already a very saturated area. so the risk for flooding exists in this part of the country as ....
Now looking at places like st. louis. the mississippi river, it is expected to reach major flood stage but this is what i was telling you about. notice the river continues to rise and not going to add more rainfall. the river will rise. forecast crest on thursday over 43 feet. so we re looking at major flood stage. the good news, not adding anymore rain into this area. we are going to be staying dry through the remainder of today. back to you. alex wilson, thank you very much and continuing to watch it with evacuation ordered to the massive flooding there in the mississippi river in missouri and keep you posted here on msnbc. thank you very much. from the midwest to the northeast having weather issues on their own. a region getting the first real blast of winter this hour. the messy mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain and nbc s ron mott from massachusetts. doesn t look too bad and safe to say more is expected? reporter: yeah. you know, we ve got a little bit ....
About 400 traps out there. trying to bring in the harvest, so to speak. you re right, butte larose in this area, they ve been told to get out. the mandatory evacuation goes into effect tonight and by 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, they re not going to be letting anybody into or out of this place. it s been a week now where folks have been moving their stuff out. i ve talked to a number of people that have been frustrated because boom, they re out of their houses for a week and a lot don t have a place to go. red cross shelters haven t been opened up yet so there s a handful of random shelters that are opened and if you re a single person they won t always let you into that. folks are kind of struggling here for sure. right now we re at 21 feet. it s forecasted to go up to 27 feet. but that forecast crest isn t until the end of next week. we talk about all the people being displaced. this is not a good deal for neighborhoods, for people and property. but yesterday, i went out with the usgs ....
seeing the release of dominique strauss-kahn. that s right. in fact, we re waiting for the former imf chief to walk out of jail. a judge agreed to free him on bail yesterday. that s the same day a grand jury indicted him. in order to get out of jail strauss-kahn will post bail of $1 million and a $5 million insurance bond and forced to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet and guarded around the clock. strauss-kahn had been under suicide watch or has been and could be walking out of there any moment. susan candiotti is here now. this is a big victory for his legal team. it wanted this to happen before it was denied and now he got it. it s a matter of making it all come together. we don t know exactly when he ll be getting out of rikers. we do know that the judge is going to have to finally sign off everything is in place. we know that as you ve been reporting, that a security team has been hired by the defense team and he has to pay for this himself, dominique st ....
Extended models. about a week from now when some of these areas downstream across parts of louisiana and southern mississippi could see the river crest in those cities, we could be looking at another potential storm bringing in more rain. now, it s still too early to tell how much rain that particular storm will bring. aside from that the damage is already done. we did see record rainfall towards the end of the month of april. all of that water is what is causing all of this flooding across the area. some parts midwest saw up to 21 inches of rain. so all of this now flowing downstream and causing catastrophic damage across particularly areas along the mississippi river. you can see some of our forecast crest states across greenville, mississippi. may 16th. vicksburg may 19th. southbound towards naches, mississippi looking toward record flooding. we think that won t be may 21st. 5 feet last set in 193 . we are at about 60.41 feet. and the forecast is for that to ....